TY - JOUR
T1 - Communication without common interest
T2 - A signaling experiment
AU - Rubin, Hannah
AU - Bruner, Justin P.
AU - O'Connor, Cailin
AU - Huttegger, Simon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - Communication can arise when the interests of speaker and listener diverge if the cost of signaling is high enough that it aligns their interests. But what happens when the cost of signaling is not sufficient to align their interests? Using methods from experimental economics, we test whether theoretical predictions of a partially informative system of communication are borne out. As our results indicate, partial communication can occur even when interests do not coincide.
AB - Communication can arise when the interests of speaker and listener diverge if the cost of signaling is high enough that it aligns their interests. But what happens when the cost of signaling is not sufficient to align their interests? Using methods from experimental economics, we test whether theoretical predictions of a partially informative system of communication are borne out. As our results indicate, partial communication can occur even when interests do not coincide.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101295
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101295
M3 - Article
C2 - 32624403
AN - SCOPUS:85087286686
SN - 1369-8486
VL - 83
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
M1 - 101295
ER -